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For we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

He who is wise tries to harmonise the wishes that seek for self-gratification with the wish for the social good, and only thus can he realise his higher self.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

A species of thick clothing slowly grows about the mind, the pores are choked, little habits become a part of existence, and by degrees the mind is inclosed in a husk.

Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the burden of a foolish person.

Above all, he must guard and you must guard him against indolence. Make him a strenuous man. I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know--had always an inclination to be idle.

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial, are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality

Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.

All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.

"Inherent differences" between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual's opportunity.

By this practice he may obtain the solitude of adversity without its melancholy, its instructions without its censures, and its sensibility without its perturbations.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.